Windows Phone 8 style launcher - from the maker of Launcher 7.
This launcher will make your phone look like Winphone 8.
Current features
- Fly animations like real phone, slightly evolved from L7 fly animation
- Application list also contains fly animation
- Completely redesigned how tiles are defined
- Contains animated tiles: flipping contacts tile, single contact tile, sms counter, calendar
- Phone counter is included, but does not have any animations
- Application list icons can be customized
- Up to three pages for widgets
Android
4.0, 4.1, 4.2 highly recommended. 4.3 not so, thanks to a bug Google
didn't fix :( 4.4 is probably brilliant. 2.x should be usable.
When
you start L8 for the very first time, it will load icon package from
the Google's servers. By default it will not load the package if you are
not connected to Wifi network. Enable mobile-button will then allow you
to download the package using cellular network. The size of the package
is currently about 5 megabytes.
Click restart L8-button after icon package is downloaded and L8 will then start.
Setting
tile images is different from L7, now you define a drawable for each
tile. Drawable then defines what will be drawn on the tile (icon,
picture, calendar,...). Multiple tiles can share same drawable. Also
drawables can contain drawables, but currently only single contact tile
allows you to nest drawables.
Contans advertisments, you can remove them from the in-app store.
What's New
- Fixed issue with contact tile
- Fixed crash when switching to black icons while icons were loading
1.7:
-
Added new option General > Bitmap buffering. Enabling it will allow
certain tiles to perform drawing faster. Naturally needs more memory,
but if you don't have too many tiles and you have 2.x, you might like
this option.
- Number of widget pages
can now be selected from General-settings (0-3). So you can now get rid
of the pages completely if you hate them.